Abigail Brooks, MA

The guideline includes 9 conditional recommendations to support practitioners in the management of pouchitis and inflammatory pouch disorders.

More than half of patients who received a pancreas transplant alone experienced >50% decline in eGFR, had eGFR < 30 mL/min/1.73 m2, and/or received a kidney transplant 10 years after their initial pancreas transplant.

Despite the known association between infectious disease and type 1 diabetes, results showed no impact on risk of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults.

The past year has seen a multitude of FDA approvals, ranging from IL-23 and JAK inhibitors to biologics and subcutaneous treatment administrations, that have helped redefine what it means to treat IBD.

The New Drug Application submission is supported by data from a pair of phase 3 studies, a long-term open-label study, and prior phase 2 studies. Cymabay has also requested Priority Review of the NDA.

Patients with HCV who underwent automated routine screening and the addition of a clinical pharmacist to the interdisciplinary patient care model completed treatment and achieved SVR at a greater rate than patients who were not exposed to the study intervention.

The new model outperformed existing measures of CKD progression based on longitudinal eGFR data alone and saw further improvements in AUROC with the inclusion of additional clinical variables.

Keli Coleman, MD, discusses findings from her research about the role of pain scores and opioids in predicting hospitalization and return visits in children with sickle cell disease and uncomplicated pain crises.

Results showed a 50.5% mortality rate among patients with cancer and AKI due to a variety of risk factors, ranging from length of ICU stay to sepsis.

Following years of concerns about the stigmatization and inaccurate etiology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease nomenclature, 2023 finally saw revised terminology for liver disease with the implementation of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.

A cohort of patients with end-stage renal disease on maintenance hemodialysis saw a 7% reduction in HCV-viremic rate and primary infection rates as low as 0.01% following implementation of the link-to-treat program.

Adding navy beans to one’s usual diet may be a viable dietary strategy for modulating the gut microbiome and regulating host markers associated with metabolic obesity and colorectal cancer.

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use and prednisolone equivalent dose >5 mg per day were associated with an increased risk of NAFLD, whereas hydroxychloroquine use and prednisolone equivalent dose ≤5 mg per day were associated with a decreased risk of NAFLD.

Final emergency department pain scores, opioid doses in the emergency department, and receipt of an opioid prescription at discharge predicted hospitalization and return visits.

Results showed treatment with iptacopan through 48 weeks caused hemoglobin-level increases, blood transfusion avoidance, and reductions in patient-reported fatigue.

Just 8.5% of eligible patients were screened for hepatitis C - among them, 5.9% tested positive for HCV antibody and 3.0% had an active infection.

Study results presented at the 2023 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition found equal immune tolerance induction success rates regardless of race/ethnicity.

Using data from the 2017-2020 NHANES, investigators found high copper intake and moderate iron intake were associated with a decreased risk of MAFLD.

The seroprevalence of HCV antibody among pregnant women was significantly greater among those with opioid use disorder and HIV infection, as well as in lower-middle-income countries and those with low levels of HDI.

The NDA submission was supported by positive data from the phase 3 PHALCON-NERD-301 study and has been assigned a standard 10-month review with a PDUFA target action date of July 19, 2024.

Results from a systematic review highlighted the clinical need for specific biomarkers for PAD and the viability of noninvasive ophthalmic imaging techniques for diagnosis.

Investigators observed differences in choroidal and inner neural layers among patients previously infected with COVID-19 compared to healthy controls.

The approval was based on data from the APPLY-PNH trial and APPOINT-PNH study, which showed iptacopan was superior for hemoglobin improvement in the absence of red blood cell transfusions and in transfusion avoidance rate compared to patients who stayed on anti-C5 treatments.

The guideline was developed by a multidisciplinary panel and consists of 11 conditional recommendations for the use of biomarkers in the management of Crohn disease.

There was no statistically significant difference in postoperative thromboembolic events and incident heparin-induced thrombocytopenia among patients treated with branded versus biosimilar enoxaparin.

Results showed similar rates of treatment persistence between the groups, with further analysis calling attention to a 40% price reduction in the cost of treatment in Australia due to reference pricing policies between biosimilars and originators.

Investigators ranked ChatGPT responses to healthcare professional-oriented questions about IBD as more useful and reliable than the model’s responses to patient-oriented questions.

Our November 2023 hepatology month in review spotlights data presented at The Liver Meeting 2023 from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) as well as news about hepatitis B and C.

Results showed patients treated with vedolizumab experienced less dose escalation and were at a decreased risk of requiring dose escalation compared to patients treated with adalimumab and infliximab.

November’s Gastroenterology Month in Review features an FDA approval, the discontinuation of a phase 3 clinical program, and news about Clostridioides difficile testing and risk factors.